Quadriplegic Man
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
through the ring finger. Okay. And some of them are on the fingertips on the palm side, and some of them are on the backside of the fingers. And some of them are right at the surface and some of them are deep sensations. So, so through those channels that they stimulate, they can create different sensations.
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
For instance, they could stimulate multiple channels and it makes me feel like I'm dragging my hand across the surface of the table. Or like this study that we just did, Giacomo, the scientist, he actually came into one day, he's like, okay, Scott, what do you feel? And it's like, oh my God, Giacomo, you just drew the letter O on my finger. It's amazing.
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
what science could do by stimulating these different neurons in my brain.
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
When I had the real robotic arm, I was controlling that. And Lisa walks into our lab here. And John, the other scientist, said, Scott, reach out and grab Lisa's hand and shake it. So Lisa comes walking up to the robotic arm that was like five feet away from me. And I reach out with the robotic arm and hand. And I grabbed Lisa's hand and I was like, oh my God, Lisa's hand is in my hand.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
Also in the podcast... And I reach out with the robotic arm and hand and I grab Lisa's hand. I felt this warmth of touch that was just unbelievable.
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
And it was actually in the robotic hand that it was in. And I was just like, this is like an out-of-body experience. I felt this warmth of touch that was just unbelievable.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
Back in 1985, I was in a car accident and my seatbelt didn't work. So the part that goes across your waist, that worked just fine, but the shoulder strap didn't work and my chest hit the steering wheel and my head snapped over the top of the steering wheel and I shattered C4, 5, and 6. And like five days later, when I woke up, I was unconscious.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
When I woke up, the doctor was leaning over me in the bed and he's like, Scott, you're never going to walk again. You're going to be a quadriplegic the rest of your life.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
OK, so the amazing thing is they implanted four electrodes on my brain. The The biggest one is about the size of Lincoln's head on a penny here in the United States. And so these electrodes, two of them are placed in my motor cortex and two of them are placed on the sensory cortex. So what that does is the ones on the motor cortex, when I think about moving my fingers or my arm,
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
the robotic arm through computer assistance and a decoder, I can actually operate an arm just like it was my own real arm and move the fingers on that robotic hand just like they were my own fingers, okay? And then on the sensory part, they have actually 64 channels that they could stimulate on my brain. And so I feel that stimulation on different parts on my fingertips from the thumb to